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Being Kurdish in a hostile world / Ayub Nuri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nuri, Ayub, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War correspondents.
- Journalists, Kurdish.
- Kurds.
- Kurds--Social conditions.
- Kurdistan--History.
- Kurdistan.
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988--Kurds.
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Kurds.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Nuri, Ayub.
- Kurds--Canada--Biography.
- Journalists, Kurdish--Biography.
- Journalists--Canada--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Canada.
- Middle East.
- War correspondents--Middle East--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 274 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The author writes about growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, family members dying in a chemical attack, civil war, living in refugee camps, years of starvation that followed UN sanctions, living through the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian rule, as well as discussing the history behind the Kurds being denied a country of their own and the ascent of ISIS.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.
- ISBN:
- 9780889774940
- 0889774943
- OCLC:
- 967502476
- Publisher Number:
- 99976739563
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